David Wiegand

Brian Lowry

Q was great fun in “Nikita,” but here she and her castmates are stranded amid a tired series of cliches, hitched to a vehicle built on the hope “Criminal Minds” viewers will be too lazy or inert to push a button.

Matthew Gilbert

Rob Owen

[The pilot episode] winds up having a decent if unlikely resolution to its primary mystery. Even if it’s possible to get past the ugliness of the violence against women in the pilot, it’s hard to imagine that a procedural with such a tight focus won’t get old fast.

Mekeisha Madden Toby

Sure, one could argue that other primetime series such as Criminal Minds and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit dabble in what is best described as torture porn. But there is something especially nihilistic about Stalker ... and the way it handles violence against women.

Mary McNamara

Matt Roush

TV really doesn't get much uglier or more cynical than CBS's Stalker, a crass and calculated attempt to keep the Criminal Minds crowd appeased for yet another hour of tacky, icky violence--disproportionately perpetrated against unfortunate women--presented within a glum, indifferently acted formula.